Including status offenders and private facilities in the calculation of residential placement rates affects State rankings based on these rates.

State residential placement rates by facility type, 2011

State of offense

Upper Ageof JuvenileCourtJurisdiction

Number ofOffenders

Residential placement rate

All

offenders

Delinquent

offenders

Status

offenders

Public

Private

Public

Private

Rate

Rank

Rate

Rank

Rate

Rank

Rate

Rate

U.S. total

61,423

196

133

55

3

5

Alabama

17

1,026

198

26

94

36

87

10

*0

17

Alaska

17

222

271

7

209

5

51

23

*11

*0

Arizona

17

936

130

41

118

27

8

43

2

*1

Arkansas

17

711

224

16

88

38

127

7

4

7

California

17

9,810

234

13

208

6

23

31

2

0

Colorado

17

1,254

233

14

145

22

85

12

3

*1

Connecticut

16

252

75

48

59

48

14

38

*1

*1

Delaware

17

180

194

27

169

14

23

31

*3

*0

District of Columbia

17

258

629

1

351

1

263

1

*15

*7

Florida

17

3,744

203

21

60

47

142

5

*0

*0

Georgia

16

1,788

184

28

151

21

26

28

7

*0

Hawaii

17

99

75

48

68

44

*7

45

*2

*0

Idaho

17

399

212

20

198

10

8

43

6

*0

Illinois

16

2,106

171

33

156

17

14

38

*0

*0

Indiana

17

1,878

258

8

160

16

77

14

7

14

Iowa

17

729

224

16

79

41

138

6

*1

7

Kansas

17

813

254

9

208

6

44

25

*1

*0

Kentucky

17

747

163

35

143

23

9

42

*1

10

Louisiana

16

957

222

18

165

15

33

27

6

17

Maine

17

165

129

42

129

26

*0

51

*0

*0

Maryland

17

939

153

36

112

28

35

26

*0

5

Massachusetts

16

543

95

45

34

50

60

20

*0

*1

Michigan

16

2,085

220

19

101

33

100

9

4

16

Minnesota

17

828

145

39

83

40

57

22

3

2

Mississippi

17

258

77

46

70

43

4

48

*3

*0

Missouri

16

1,122

201

23

179

13

5

46

17

*0

Montana

17

168

169

34

135

25

21

34

*0

15

Nebraska

17

669

336

4

202

9

102

8

*5

29

Nevada

17

720

246

10

211

4

25

29

9

*2

New Hampshire

16

90

76

47

43

49

25

29

*0

*8

New Jersey

17

1,005

106

44

102

32

3

49

*0

*0

New Mexico

17

522

229

15

208

6

20

35

*1

*0

New York

15

2,139

148

38

61

45

64

18

*0

22

North Carolina

15

567

74

50

61

45

11

41

*1

*0

North Dakota

17

156

240

11

106

30

60

20

*9

69

Ohio

17

2,490

200

24

183

12

13

40

3

1

Oklahoma

17

576

141

40

92

37

45

24

*1

*1

Oregon

17

1,098

281

5

218

3

63

19

*0

*0

Pennsylvania

17

3,075

239

12

74

42

156

4

*0

8

Rhode Island

17

186

180

29

104

31

75

15

*0

*0

South Carolina

16

726

173

31

95

35

69

16

4

5

South Dakota

17

429

492

2

237

2

199

3

*10

45

Tennessee

17

783

116

43

88

38

23

31

2

3

Texas

16

4,671

175

30

154

19

20

35

1

1

Utah

17

732

200

24

111

29

84

13

4

*1

Vermont

17

36

59

51

25

51

20

35

*10

*5

Virginia

17

1,686

203

21

196

11

1

50

5

*0

Washington

17

1,062

150

37

141

24

5

46

4

*0

West Virginia

17

489

277

6

153

20

87

10

15

22

Wisconsin

16

915

173

31

101

33

68

17

*1

4

Wyoming

17

249

431

3

156

17

208

2

21

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Notes: State is where the offense occurred. The total for the United States includes 2,324 juveniles in private facilities for whom State of offense was not reported. U.S total does not include juveniles in tribal facilities. Rates are per 100,000 juveniles age 10 through upper age of jurisdiction. State ranks are based on unrounded rates.

To protect the confidentiality of juvenile residents all published data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) are rounded to the nearest multiple of three. Each state cell is rounded independently, without consideration as to row or column totals. As a result, in many tables, the internal cells do not add to the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP are also based on rounded totals. More information on this rounding rule is available on the CJRP
Databook Web site.

Whereas most delinquents are in public facilities, most status offenders are in private facilities. State residential placement rates based only on delinquents in public facilities are very different from rates that include status offenders and offenders in private facilities. Of course, several factors influence variations in State placement rates. Differences in States’ upper age of juvenile court jurisdiction, extended age of jurisdiction (i.e., how long the juvenile justice system has jurisdiction over youth for dispositional purposes), and provisions for transfer to criminal court; jurisdictions’ demographic composition; offenders’ offense profiles; and bedspace availability in custodial facilities effect placement rates. Thus, State placement rate comparisons should be interpreted with caution.